NEWS STORY: Dental Therapist Will Treat Underinsured in Wadena

Posted: January 2, 2013

Dental therapist Jason Allred will soon be setting up shop inside Woodland Dental in Wadena. However, he’s no ordinary dentist. In fact, there are only about 20 people like him in the entire country, Allred said.

That’s because the idea of a “dental therapist” is completely new, Allred added. Unlike anything else in the U.S., the program was developed at the University of Minnesota’s School of Dentistry with a simple objective: provide dental care to the people in rural Minnesota who rely on medical assistance to help pay for it and who otherwise would fall through the cracks of the health care system, Allred said.

“(With) people on state insurance or medical assistance, the reimbursement rates for dental care are extremely low, so a lot of dentists don’t accept those (kinds of) insurance, so people don’t have any place to go to be seen,” he said.

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